djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum) (08/09/89)
MS-DOS 'copy' does not like wildcards; I can not concatenate temp1 and temp2 into temp3 by entering "copy temp? temp3" (assuming that temp1 and temp2 exist and temp3 doesn't. The UNIX cat command will do what I want (cat temp? > temp3). I looked for an MS-DOS implemen- tation and tried the one in picnix31, but it includes the EOF character and I am unable to concatenate text files and then look at them without tripping over the embedded control-Z. There doesn't seem to be a switch that would concatenate text files and dump the extra control-Zs (retaining the one at the end of the last file, of course). Could anyone point me toward an MS-DOS version of cat (or anything similar) that will allow me to concatenate text files USING WILDCARDS without running into my embedded control-Z problem. I have ftp ac- cess; if it's available at an archive site, please let me know what the program is called, where it is, and how to get there by ftp. Please reply by email to: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu [Internet] djb@wjh12.uucp [UUCP] djb@harvunxw.bitnet [Bitnet] Thanks. --David
mlord@bnr-public.uucp (Mark Lord) (08/10/89)
How about the MSDOS 'xcopy' command instead? It seems to work much better with wildcards than 'copy'. Supplied with DOS 3.2 and up. -Mark
bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) (08/10/89)
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